| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 Seiten
...war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science ; but, in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood,...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 Seiten
...the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious science. But in the uniform and odious picture of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 Seiten
...the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious science. But in the uniform and odious picture of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 Seiten
...the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious science. But in the uniform and odious picture of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 Seiten
...of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary though pernicious science ; but in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood,...incapable of forming any just or adequate idea."* By these three was the THIRD PART of men KILLED, by THE FIRE, AND BY THE SMOKE, AND BY THE BRIMSTONE,... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 392 Seiten
...evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary though pernicious science; but in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood,...incapable of forming any just or adequate idea."* By these three was the THIRD PART of men KILLED, by THE FIRE, AND BV THE SMOKE, AND BY T1IK BRIMSTONE,... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 Seiten
...necessary though pernicious science ; but in the uniform aud odious pictures of a general assault, ail is blood, and horror, and confusion : nor shall I...incapable of forming any just or adequate idea."* By these three was the THIRD p AKT of men KILLED, by THE FIRE, AND BY THE SMOKE, AND BY THB BRIMSTONE,... | |
| William Sullivan - 1838 - 640 Seiten
...is blood, horror, and confusion ; nor shall I strive, at the distance of three centuries, and 1000 miles, to delineate a scene of which there could be...were incapable of forming any just or adequate idea. Amidst these multitudes, the emperor, who accomplished all the duties of a general and a soldier, was... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1851 - 694 Seiten
...of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood,...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 628 Seiten
...«f war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science ; but in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood,...adequate idea. The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed to the bullet, or arrow, which pierced the gauntlet of John Justiniani. The sight of... | |
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